Tag Archives | family

(Sigh) the holidays. It’s a time for creating memories, making delicious food, sharing gifts…and spending A LOT of time with family. The weeks of November and December can be a total overload of activities and parties, and chances are that people you don’t see that often the rest of the year will become very familiar […]

Counting My Blessings I love how lately my four year old son keeps asking me to tell him about the day he was born. He cuddles right in, usually with blanket in hand, and smiles as I recount the memory of that day. I tell him how much we wanted a baby to love. […]

I was never afraid of flying prior to becoming a mom. I loved exploring new places! I craved adventure! My old passport is full of stamps, (New Zealand, England, Mexico, Costa Rica) so why does the thought of travel now cause a pit in my stomach!? Upon meeting the love of my life and now husband I learned […]

When you have a baby, the love is immediate, intense, and purely genuine. Through adoption, the strength of this familial bond can be just as powerful. While I have not experienced the emotional process of adoption myself, I work with prospective adoptive parents through the legal process of creating a forever family. Only after I […]

When I was a newlywed and blissfully unaware of the stresses of raising children, it was very easy for me to judge other moms. I remember my husband and I were sitting in a restaurant enjoying our food without interruptions. We saw a family at the table next to us whip out the iPad and […]

I have a picture problem. Actually, make that picture problems. Thanks to smartphones, we probably all do. While it is great- and so tempting- to be able to document all the moments in life, there are definitely downsides to constant access to a camera. Here are some of the ones that haunt me, and have […]

As moms we have so many roles day to day and many (too many probably) responsibilities. We need to make sure our children are clothed, somewhat clean, taken care of, fed, and the list goes on and on. Not to mention being a wife and maintaining a household. But what about us? What about our […]

Like many other moms out there, I have a husband who travels a lot for work. He is often gone for three or four day stretches and sometimes up to two weeks. It averages out to about 1-2 weeks every month. I have learned how to survive with the kids when he is gone, but […]

Family means something so much more to me than who shares the same bloodline that I do. You see, I have many people in my life who are family because we share some genetic connection. But that’s not my family. The people in my family are not simply aunts, uncles, cousins and the like. My […]

“Are you going to try for a third?” My public response: “Well, we’re not sure yet.” My inner voice: “Nope.” Why not just be honest? Because I am guilty. I have always had a particularly hard time with the what-ifs in life. What if I had chosen a different college? What if I had chosen a different career? […]